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he has to work with barack obama white house. he has to work with senator harry reid. he also has to work with conservatives like myself and the republican committee. it is a tough job. he has handled it well. so much of what may or may not happen in the lame-duck session depends on what happens on election day. i think it is going to be a good day for republicans. >> are there discussions happening now between yourself and leadership and the house studies committee? are you talking about how to deal with these issues? >> we are talking about what may or may not happen in a lame duck session. what we're mostly focused on doing particularly here in ohio is helping it romney win this race in our states and he can the president. that is the focus. it is how we decide big things. right now we are three weeks away from a big election. that is our focus. there are conversations going on among some members of the house representatives of all and there may not take place. >> quickly on the ohio. you are in higher. center rob portman is an ohio. that is the swing state that he
he has to work with barack obama white house. he has to work with senator harry reid. he also has to work with conservatives like myself and the republican committee. it is a tough job. he has handled it well. so much of what may or may not happen in the lame-duck session depends on what happens on election day. i think it is going to be a good day for republicans. >> are there discussions happening now between yourself and leadership and the house studies committee? are you talking about...
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the recognition comes as the white house confirms to nbc news that assad is more desperate and started using scud missiles. >> we're made a decision that the syrian opposition coalition is now inclusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the syrian people. >> joining me now, deputy editor bobby gauch. does this provide help to the rebels? >> it is not yet clear. the united states did not say it will provide arms. it opens the door wider and the u.s. is coming late to this party. a number of other allies of the united states have given recognition and giving them arms and assistance. the u.s. is among the last reported stamp of approval. >> what are do you think the approval was meat at this point? part the united states has had concern fist are a long time that among the many groups, some have close ties to al qaeda and the obama administration didn't want to give the recognition to that particular group. in recent days, they have identified one group and put that down on the terror list and to
the recognition comes as the white house confirms to nbc news that assad is more desperate and started using scud missiles. >> we're made a decision that the syrian opposition coalition is now inclusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the syrian people. >> joining me now, deputy editor bobby gauch. does this provide help to the rebels? >> it is not yet clear. the united states did...
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at the white house sunday as they try to avoid the fiscal cliff. as the clock ticks down, it appears some republicans may be softening their stance. brian mooar with the latest on this story. >> reporter: president obama and house speaker john boehner were behind closed doors trying to break the tax and spending stalemate that threatens to take the country over the fiscal cliff in just over three weeks. meanwhile, one by one republicans are bowing to the president's demand that taxes go up for the wealthy. >> will i accept a tax increase as a part of a deal to actually solve our problems? yes. >> we don't have a lot of cards as it relates to the tax issue before year end. i mean, we have one house, that's it. the presidency and the senate in the democrats' hands. >> since we agree with democrats, 98% of the american people and 80% of the bush tax cuts, to me i would get that off the table so they don't worry about it. >> reporter: democrats insist taxes are going up on the rich no matter what. >> if you don't increase tax rates on the highest 2% of
at the white house sunday as they try to avoid the fiscal cliff. as the clock ticks down, it appears some republicans may be softening their stance. brian mooar with the latest on this story. >> reporter: president obama and house speaker john boehner were behind closed doors trying to break the tax and spending stalemate that threatens to take the country over the fiscal cliff in just over three weeks. meanwhile, one by one republicans are bowing to the president's demand that taxes go...
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the briefing taking place after the noon time luncheon at the white house with congressional leaders and the president. >>> today president obama over sandwiches from taylor gourmet, a shop that i'm sure many of you have sampled, met with senate majority leader, harry reid, john boehner and nancy pelosi. the president urged to strengthen the economic recovery including the five items on the president's to do list for congress like the tax cuts for small businesses that the president discussed with local entrepreneurs earlier today. the congress to do list includes items like helping veterans find jobs and assistance to responsible homeowners, the kinds of priorities that republicans and democrats should be able to work on. the president emphasized the need for congress to avoid refighting old political fights and act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling. the president made clear that he refuses to allow a replay on the self inflicted political crisis. the president reminded the leaders that he has sign into law over $2 trillion in deficit reduction bringing domest
the briefing taking place after the noon time luncheon at the white house with congressional leaders and the president. >>> today president obama over sandwiches from taylor gourmet, a shop that i'm sure many of you have sampled, met with senate majority leader, harry reid, john boehner and nancy pelosi. the president urged to strengthen the economic recovery including the five items on the president's to do list for congress like the tax cuts for small businesses that the president...
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campaign and the obama white house and they said that their strategy was to do things that would destroy mitt romney and, in essence, be a character assassination. once they started down that path, it's like nuclear armament. everybody escalates a little bit. this should be about issues. >> i mean, i think both are equal at fault here. i watched the whole romney campaign when he was becoming the republican nominee. i was in some of these places. these small towns and smaller cities when he was rampaging against all his rivals. it was a bombardment. if you were watching local television, every three minutes, boom, boom, boom. i don't think mitt romney can claim the high moral ground here either. >> i don't agree with you. look, i've been involved in politics a long time. when mitt romney was up here in new hampshire, they were talking about the jobs issue. they were talking about the issue of taking positions on immigration. now, they were talking about taking positions on spending. they were talking about taking positions on taxes. they may have fought fiercely on that, but they were tal
campaign and the obama white house and they said that their strategy was to do things that would destroy mitt romney and, in essence, be a character assassination. once they started down that path, it's like nuclear armament. everybody escalates a little bit. this should be about issues. >> i mean, i think both are equal at fault here. i watched the whole romney campaign when he was becoming the republican nominee. i was in some of these places. these small towns and smaller cities when...
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it depends whether romney wins the white house or obama wins the white house. obama has said he is interested in an executive deal. so has romney. we will see. they have tried, as chronicled in recent news stories and books, to get a deficit deal, and they have stumbled at every opportunity. >> what is the most optimistic case for a deal? what are the conditions where a deal could happen? or is it impossible? >> we saw that it was close. the idea would be when the tax rates are expiring, obama would say, "i am not extending the top rates." the idea would be to reform the tax code and do something to change the rates that republicans would like and democrats could agree to come and kind of lump in their medicare, medicaid, social security -- a grand bargain. that is the best-case scenario at this point, to couple them with these tax rates, which both parties agree need changing. democrats say they do not want to extend the bush tax cuts. republicans want to reform the whole code. >> it was said on one of these programs the other day that there just are not the c
it depends whether romney wins the white house or obama wins the white house. obama has said he is interested in an executive deal. so has romney. we will see. they have tried, as chronicled in recent news stories and books, to get a deficit deal, and they have stumbled at every opportunity. >> what is the most optimistic case for a deal? what are the conditions where a deal could happen? or is it impossible? >> we saw that it was close. the idea would be when the tax rates are...
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it was accompanied by this picture of him taken at the white house with his voter registration form. i'm joined now by former florida republican governor, democrat, charlie crist. gov new york city i will always call you governor. it may be more appropriate some day, but it's an honor to have you on this show. i just happened to hilt you up with a hardball question. peter freeman said you sat at his table, not too long ago, his breakfast table. and you said i am a ronald reagan republican. were you then -- are you now so changed that that's not true? >> i think the party has changed is what's really happened. i think regan is a great kparm. my friend, jeb bush, said not long ago, that ronald reagan would probably not be successful in today's republican party. that tells you everything you need to know. and i think it's the leadership of the party more than the membership. what's happened on issue after issue, and you know this better than i do. whether it's immigration, education, voter suppression, what the leadership has done is, say on immigration, we want deportation. when it tal
it was accompanied by this picture of him taken at the white house with his voter registration form. i'm joined now by former florida republican governor, democrat, charlie crist. gov new york city i will always call you governor. it may be more appropriate some day, but it's an honor to have you on this show. i just happened to hilt you up with a hardball question. peter freeman said you sat at his table, not too long ago, his breakfast table. and you said i am a ronald reagan republican. were...
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that president obama believes debt is a legacy issue, that this is a big legacy issue for him. now, he's where the devil of the details, he has not said, and the white house doesn't say. here's the other devil in the detail, who is he appointing as treasury secretary? if it's jack lou, the current chief of staff, that does not sort of sh a lot of compromise. he's a partisan liberal. they think jack is the leadin choice. what about bowles, he's gone out there, former north carolina senator, said he doesn't want it, but suppose he goes there saying i want you, you can get the compromise. them you know there's going to be a compromise. bowles, from what i understand, as banking sources tell me, still is in the running. if you pick him, you got to think you pick him for the plan. neil: they had bill b -- bill daly briefly. >> you can't just blow out the secretary, chief of staff is one thing. neil: blow him out because he sucks. >> can we say that on cable? neil: just did. >> based on most people's assessments, tim geithner is not a good treasury secretary, but bowles is a serious
that president obama believes debt is a legacy issue, that this is a big legacy issue for him. now, he's where the devil of the details, he has not said, and the white house doesn't say. here's the other devil in the detail, who is he appointing as treasury secretary? if it's jack lou, the current chief of staff, that does not sort of sh a lot of compromise. he's a partisan liberal. they think jack is the leadin choice. what about bowles, he's gone out there, former north carolina senator, said...
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president obama doesn't have any specific plans that the white house is reading out to talk to congressional leaders, but they say he will remain in contact with him in the coming days. >> kristen welker at the white house. thank you vyou very much. now to governor ed rendell. the optics of the president in the burbs is interesting. why did he choose the suburbs for this fight? >> these are traditional swing voter, voters who decide elections in pennsylvania. right now pennsylvania statewide elections are decided in the philadelphia suburbs. they're a decent demographic. not by any means poor people, but not rich people. they are the heart of the middle class, spexactly who the presidt is talking to. >> let's talk more about this proposal by the president. i want to just play a quick clip from harry reid from earlier in the week. here's what he had to say. >> remember we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. we've already done that. so we need to get credit for that and these negotiations that take place. >> so democrats want credit for cutting a billion dollars when --
president obama doesn't have any specific plans that the white house is reading out to talk to congressional leaders, but they say he will remain in contact with him in the coming days. >> kristen welker at the white house. thank you vyou very much. now to governor ed rendell. the optics of the president in the burbs is interesting. why did he choose the suburbs for this fight? >> these are traditional swing voter, voters who decide elections in pennsylvania. right now pennsylvania...
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the white house for another four years what accounts for this victory was it a well run campaign in changing demographics or was it a campaign for the republicans to lose does obama now have a solid mandate and what is the future of the g.o.p. . cross-talk american politics after the election i'm joined by two crosstalk usual suspects stephen lesser in new york he is host of the blog talk radio show making sense with steve lesser and a partner at democratic spring strategies and in paris we cross to rachel mars than she is a political communications strategist and a syndicated columnist all right folks you both put on the program before so you understand how crosstalk rules work steve if i go to you first what is the primary reason the number one reason why your man and everyone knows that your man won the election. well there's two or three main reasons but if you want to know the number one reason i think that the american people gave president obama credit for coming to office at a very difficult time when the economy was losing eight hundred thousand jobs a month and it really l
the white house for another four years what accounts for this victory was it a well run campaign in changing demographics or was it a campaign for the republicans to lose does obama now have a solid mandate and what is the future of the g.o.p. . cross-talk american politics after the election i'm joined by two crosstalk usual suspects stephen lesser in new york he is host of the blog talk radio show making sense with steve lesser and a partner at democratic spring strategies and in paris we...
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he does not know what it feels to be black or white in the middle class. give obama i chance. host: a small business owner from tennessee. guest: small business is always in the campaigns and it gets laid out pretty simply that democrats raise taxes and hurt small businesses. republicans always argue they will reduce regulation and reduce taxes. they always try to talk about that small business owner that earns $250,000. that gets a lot of play but it takes the back seat to the jobs issue, the auto industry, the coal issue, and even health care gets battled around. president obama always seems to push that he is 17 or more tax breaks for small businesses. that is still part of the larger issue of jobs. host: a question on the jobs issue. we are waiting for that latest unemployment report to come out. here is a chart of the unemployment rate across the ohio. that is below the national rate of about 7.8%. are people more focused on that state number or the national number that we will see the latest on this morning? guest: it is the national number. we have a republican governor
he does not know what it feels to be black or white in the middle class. give obama i chance. host: a small business owner from tennessee. guest: small business is always in the campaigns and it gets laid out pretty simply that democrats raise taxes and hurt small businesses. republicans always argue they will reduce regulation and reduce taxes. they always try to talk about that small business owner that earns $250,000. that gets a lot of play but it takes the back seat to the jobs issue, the...
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the real reasonable a considerable portion of my party wants president obama out of the white house has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competent, his commander in chief, and everything to do with the color of his skin. >> there's a lot to unpack. let's start with the fox crew. what do you think? >> watching them just freak out, it's -- you know, ed, it's touching. i feel sorry for them. i almost want to cry, but i think i'm going to manage to restrain myself. at least bill o'reilly had the guts to say what they mean, which is that, you know, we are shocked and amazed that white mime don't get to run every single thing anymore, and we're error filled by that. you know, if he actually looks as demographic trends in this country, he will just have conniptions and the vapors and just pass dead away. so let's hope he never gets to see those figures. you know, he takes absolutely the wrong lesson from the debacle that republicans suffered. the lesson he takes is all these dusky interlopers, all they want is stuff. that's absolutely not true. that's abs
the real reasonable a considerable portion of my party wants president obama out of the white house has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competent, his commander in chief, and everything to do with the color of his skin. >> there's a lot to unpack. let's start with the fox crew. what do you think? >> watching them just freak out, it's -- you know, ed, it's touching. i feel sorry for them. i almost want to cry, but i think i'm going to manage to...
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tonight, and look at the white house and congress and how they are addressing the so-called fiscal cliff. first, president obama speaks in pennsylvania, followed by john boehner responded to the president from capitol hill. then eric cantor response of the lighthouse deficit reduction package. later, nancy pelosi addresses the fiscal cliff and middle- class tax cuts. president obama talked about the so-called fiscal cliff and his proposal to end of the bush tax cuts on those earning more than two and a $50,000. ed -- more than $250,000. ["hail to the chief" plays] please have a seat. have a seat. relax for a second. it is good to see all of you. hello. it is good to be back in pennsylvania. it is good to be right here. i want to thank michael, robert, and the investor, joel glickman for hosting me today and giving me a great tour. stand up so everybody can see you, guys. [cheers and applause] there you go. we have a couple of outstanding members of congress here. [cheers and applause] now, i just finished getting a tour of the workshop. i have to say it makes me wish that joel invented t
tonight, and look at the white house and congress and how they are addressing the so-called fiscal cliff. first, president obama speaks in pennsylvania, followed by john boehner responded to the president from capitol hill. then eric cantor response of the lighthouse deficit reduction package. later, nancy pelosi addresses the fiscal cliff and middle- class tax cuts. president obama talked about the so-called fiscal cliff and his proposal to end of the bush tax cuts on those earning more than...
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neither woman met with president obama during their visits. >> at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, discussions on the fiscal cliff. nancy pelosi and john boehner met with the president this morning. with six weeks left to go, work has to be done quickly. rebecca is live with more on the talks. >> the calendar is showing it is just a few weeks until we fall off the so-called fiscal cliff. that is when extended unemployment benefits will expire, tax cuts will expire, and the automatic spending cuts will go into effect. today congressional leaders were promising they would meet the deadline. >> inside the white house republican house speaker john boehner and president obama sat side by side both insisting they want and will find macdill. >> our challenge is to make sure that we are able to cooperate, work together, find common ground, make some tough compromises, build some consensus to do the people's business. >> coming out of the meeting are rare image of bipartisan ship. >> we have the recognition that every person in america knows we would not reach agreement. >> we are prepared
neither woman met with president obama during their visits. >> at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, discussions on the fiscal cliff. nancy pelosi and john boehner met with the president this morning. with six weeks left to go, work has to be done quickly. rebecca is live with more on the talks. >> the calendar is showing it is just a few weeks until we fall off the so-called fiscal cliff. that is when extended unemployment benefits will expire, tax cuts will expire, and the...
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white house. a number of the aides to the president signaled a mutually agreeable way to put the rule in place to begin in august of 2013. the rule put in place last month does exempture churches, but it would affect catholic hospitals and universities and even though contraceptives are contrary to catholic teachings, it would require it. and some of the catholic bishops discounted some of the white house assurances and this past sunday around the country, and many parishioners heard letters of bishops and arch bish shocbi around the country, and so it is turning into a religious and political issue. members of the white house weighed in on this, but jay carney taking questions at the top of the white house briefing. >> on the issue of contraceptives, speaker boehner is wanting to deny it through the rule, and i'm kind of curious about your reaction to that, and if it were to happen, is that the kind of omeasure that the president would veto, or does he feel that strongly? >> well, that is a lot o
white house. a number of the aides to the president signaled a mutually agreeable way to put the rule in place to begin in august of 2013. the rule put in place last month does exempture churches, but it would affect catholic hospitals and universities and even though contraceptives are contrary to catholic teachings, it would require it. and some of the catholic bishops discounted some of the white house assurances and this past sunday around the country, and many parishioners heard letters of...
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obama's appeal, black activists, blacks lost cause must get out white vote. black christian, shame, shame, shame. the black divider in chief, black actress supports romney. welcome home, sista spelled s-i-s-t-a. if this is on your website within the last month. how do you get black voters? >> i'm not familiar with what posts you're talking about. >> it's on teapartyexpress.org. >> wait, i don't know. i think probably lloyd marcus who is a spokesperson for tea party express probably wrote that. he's been with tea party express from the beginning. he is a proliffic blogger and writer, author and he's performed. that's my guess. but, look, we reach out to people all the time and there are african-americans, hispanics in this entire movement across the country. i mean, it doesn't -- we're not focused on race. what we are focused on are the fiscal issues and we want washington to reign in this out of control spending and live within their means so all americans win and we're on that path to prosperity, again. >> the problem may be the fiscal conservatives who are
obama's appeal, black activists, blacks lost cause must get out white vote. black christian, shame, shame, shame. the black divider in chief, black actress supports romney. welcome home, sista spelled s-i-s-t-a. if this is on your website within the last month. how do you get black voters? >> i'm not familiar with what posts you're talking about. >> it's on teapartyexpress.org. >> wait, i don't know. i think probably lloyd marcus who is a spokesperson for tea party express...
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in a speech at the white house, president obama claimed the election proved most americans agree with his plan. that he calls balanced. cutting spending and hiking taxes to avoid the fiscal cliff. he said he's flexible -- >> but i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i am not going to ask students and seniors and middle class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over $250,000 aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. >> reporter: he's calling in members of congress for fiscal cliff meetings next week. but the main republican negotiator, again, will be speaker john boehner. >> and the problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest americans is that more than half of them are small business owners. we know 700,000 jobs will be destroyed. >> reporter: boehner insists the middle class and the government would get more money, if tax rates drop. >> we know that we're going to get more economic growth. it will bring jobs back to america. it will bring more revenue. >> reporter: republicans say they won't budge on taxes, unless democrats agree to
in a speech at the white house, president obama claimed the election proved most americans agree with his plan. that he calls balanced. cutting spending and hiking taxes to avoid the fiscal cliff. he said he's flexible -- >> but i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i am not going to ask students and seniors and middle class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over $250,000 aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. >> reporter: he's...
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that makes it harder. >> tell us something about the obama white house that we do not know. >> what does obama think of mitt romney? what does he really think? i think he feels that romney is incompetence because he did not run a better campaign. i suspect that one of the teams in all of the coverage of the campaign is going to be that romney never found a way to -- either the method or the theme of how to run against obama were as they thought it was going to be easy. >> we are about to get the hook here -- the penultimate question. what is the one thing you would like to know about president obama that you do not? >> i did ask him this. i did not put it in the book. he keeps a diary. i would like to have access. [laughter] he said, i said, do you keep a diary? he said, yes, but not on all of these details. i said the outcome on -- i said, come on. let's see it. i am sure he will write a really interesting them more. >> what did he tell you about the diary? >> that it existed. no detail. he did not offer me to read from it or anything like that. you know, is it dictated? is it written?
that makes it harder. >> tell us something about the obama white house that we do not know. >> what does obama think of mitt romney? what does he really think? i think he feels that romney is incompetence because he did not run a better campaign. i suspect that one of the teams in all of the coverage of the campaign is going to be that romney never found a way to -- either the method or the theme of how to run against obama were as they thought it was going to be easy. >> we...
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president barack obama wants to raise income taxes on households making more than 400,000 a year and he has offered 1.2 trillion in revenue and cuts stand at 132 billion and house speaker john boehner said that is not a balanced approach. they want to do something and that's something democrats have been bulging on a bit. house speaker -- house speaker john boehner has more on that and that's something we will talk about in just a bit, here is more. >> a suspect is now dead after a nine hour standoff in harrisburg,pennsylvania. [ gunshots ] >> police say 24-year-old abel roman started shooting when they went to serve a warrant. the shootout continued for several hours. one police officer was wounded in the hand and when they entered that apartment, they are not sure whether he was hit by his own bullet or by police bullets. >>> they first reported the arrest saturday after talking with our sources. the suspects have not been identified yet, bobby tar attain and the girls were gunned down. they have not given us any information about a possible motive. >>> and a teenage girl died on a
president barack obama wants to raise income taxes on households making more than 400,000 a year and he has offered 1.2 trillion in revenue and cuts stand at 132 billion and house speaker john boehner said that is not a balanced approach. they want to do something and that's something democrats have been bulging on a bit. house speaker -- house speaker john boehner has more on that and that's something we will talk about in just a bit, here is more. >> a suspect is now dead after a nine...
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similarly there's what they made against the latest attack against the obama white house. the romney campaign is accusing president obama's campaign manager now of improperly using a personal e-mail address for white house business. this is a new attack they have not made before. on the plus side of this attack is that this is definitely not about mitt romney's tax returns. it's not about anybody's tax returns. thap is a plus for the romney campaign in deciding whether or not to use this. always going on offense. that's good. they're trying to turn the page. and it's about mr. obama's campaign manager who's an anonymous guy who doesn't get attacked. maybe they think that will rattle him and thereby rattle and hurt the campaign. those must be things the romney campaign is thinking they stand to gain from launching this attack. those are all pluses. on the minus side, bringing up the idea of hiding your e-mails if you're the romney campaign does run the risk of reminding people he's the guy whose top aides bought their government hard drives at the end of his term as governo
similarly there's what they made against the latest attack against the obama white house. the romney campaign is accusing president obama's campaign manager now of improperly using a personal e-mail address for white house business. this is a new attack they have not made before. on the plus side of this attack is that this is definitely not about mitt romney's tax returns. it's not about anybody's tax returns. thap is a plus for the romney campaign in deciding whether or not to use this....
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president obama just arriving at the white house after cutting short his hawaiian vacation. the senate trickles back into washington for a last attempt at the fiscal cliff compromise. shibani: team coverage, peter barnes standing by at reagan national airport where lawmakers are revising falling snow delays and we start with rich edson on capitol hill where the senate is finally in session but are going to get any work done? >> we will get work done but on a few unrelated issues, nothing to do with the fiscal cliff, they're talking about a couple other bills. president obama back in washington d.c. spoke to all the congressional leaders, top democrats and republicans in the house and senate, no update, or signs of real progress, senior administration official says this one is up to congress to figure out. house republicans say we need the senate to act, senators say we need republicans to act. terry reed hit the floor a short while ago and said it looks like we are headed over the fiscal plan and called on the house to set -- pass the senate plan. >> i see the speaker painti
president obama just arriving at the white house after cutting short his hawaiian vacation. the senate trickles back into washington for a last attempt at the fiscal cliff compromise. shibani: team coverage, peter barnes standing by at reagan national airport where lawmakers are revising falling snow delays and we start with rich edson on capitol hill where the senate is finally in session but are going to get any work done? >> we will get work done but on a few unrelated issues, nothing...
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president obama is scheduled to meet with congressional leaders at the white house this afternoon. senate majority leader harry reid says the likelihood of reaching a deal is a long shot. but senator charles schumer told the "today" show that the odds are better than people think. if a deal were to pass, senate house speaker john boehner would have to agree to take it to the floor of the republican controlled house. danielle nottingham has more. >> reporter: president obama is meeting today at the white house with top congressional democrats harry reid and nancy pelosi and leading republicans mitch mcconnell and john boehner. it's the president's first meeting with congressional leaders since november 16th. the closed door discussions are an attempt to reach a last- minute agreement to avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases due to kick in on january 1st. >> probably the worst case scenario will come out of this maybe today and -- meeting today and that is we will kick the can down the road. >> reporter: senator bob corker told "cbs this morning" he predicts the meeting wil
president obama is scheduled to meet with congressional leaders at the white house this afternoon. senate majority leader harry reid says the likelihood of reaching a deal is a long shot. but senator charles schumer told the "today" show that the odds are better than people think. if a deal were to pass, senate house speaker john boehner would have to agree to take it to the floor of the republican controlled house. danielle nottingham has more. >> reporter: president obama is...
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speaker boehner accuses the white house of dragging its feet. >> president obama offered a proposal, republicans didn't like that plan. now the g.o.p. has countered. so the ball is in the white house's court and that's what republicans are basically waiting for. but i don't see -- i don't think you'll see real progress over the next week. we are about two weeks away from christmas. three weeks until we hit the deadline and they're nowhere. what speaker boehner said correct. there's been no progress and there will be nor jockeying and leverage the next week. >> i want to point out in the president's weekly address that was issued yesterday, he says there's wiggle room by democrats to come up with a solution. >> that's true. that's what president obama -- he's been saying to republicans here and there, i'm willing to put more on the table but pour the moment, democrats are saying don't touch social security, don't cut medicare. this will come down to whoever blinks first on tax rates. republicans are going to bend on tax rates. maybe not $250,000 threshold, maybe closer to a million. b
speaker boehner accuses the white house of dragging its feet. >> president obama offered a proposal, republicans didn't like that plan. now the g.o.p. has countered. so the ball is in the white house's court and that's what republicans are basically waiting for. but i don't see -- i don't think you'll see real progress over the next week. we are about two weeks away from christmas. three weeks until we hit the deadline and they're nowhere. what speaker boehner said correct. there's been...
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and they say compared to what the white house put out, the white house says it offers $4 trillion when using the same accounting as the white house, it would be about $4.60 trillion over 10 years. republicans say it would come from tax reform, but not to increasing tax rates. that has been a sticking point thus far in negotiations. >> you are talking about the bush tax rates? >> all of the bush era tax rates would be extended into next year and that would start the process for tax reform. it would be in the tax reform process that there would generate -- and they would generate $800 million -- $800 billion in revenue. and they say the $800 billion could be raised without raising tax rates, and this is something that is in dispute with the white house. the white house said there would be no deal unless republicans agreed to increase tax rates on the wall the next year. >> what do the republicans say about the debt limit, sequestration, automatic spending cuts, and changes to entitlement programs. -- entitlement programs? >> that was not addressed. the white house offered to make permane
and they say compared to what the white house put out, the white house says it offers $4 trillion when using the same accounting as the white house, it would be about $4.60 trillion over 10 years. republicans say it would come from tax reform, but not to increasing tax rates. that has been a sticking point thus far in negotiations. >> you are talking about the bush tax rates? >> all of the bush era tax rates would be extended into next year and that would start the process for tax...
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it is about 3.5 years of negotiations between the obama white house and the republicans in congress and the democrats. how they essentially tried to bring the federal government's financial house to some kind of order. the answer is they failed. we have a federal government whose financial house is in total disorder, total disarray. it is a historic problem. to try to put it in english, we have a trillion dollars of iou outstanding in the world. the negotiations, they agreed to raise what they call the debt ceiling, so the government can borrow a couple more trillion dollars. we are going to run it run out of that borrowing authority january or february of next year. they're going to have to go back and authorized congress for more trillions of dollars of borrowing. the republicans and lots of people in congress don't want to authorize that. so there is going to be a bloody negotiation, unless they can work a deal. in a sense, this is a book about the past, but it's about the present. it is about where we are going and what the country's future is. if you think about it i would argue th
it is about 3.5 years of negotiations between the obama white house and the republicans in congress and the democrats. how they essentially tried to bring the federal government's financial house to some kind of order. the answer is they failed. we have a federal government whose financial house is in total disorder, total disarray. it is a historic problem. to try to put it in english, we have a trillion dollars of iou outstanding in the world. the negotiations, they agreed to raise what they...
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robert griffin will be living in the white house. neil: that's a very good point. [laughter] [laughter] >> i do think that everybody talks about after the election -- they say, oh, we are the ones that should be credited for winning for president obama and governor romney. but i think there is the black vote, the white vote, the hispanic vote, the women spoke from a small business vote -- but i think there are two demographics you need to keep your eye on. on the right, it is the evangelical pro-life conservatives. they don't have the same confidence as 2008. on the right, the pro-life catholics don't have the confidence that i think 60 days, 50 days from election that they need to have with their candidate. neil: they have been counted in these surveys and that romney's support might be stronger than it appears like i do think that the white working class don't prefer the president, they say, well, we will not tolerate this for another four years -- and the evangelicals turnout, the pro-life catholics are now, i think it could be big for governor romney but that r
robert griffin will be living in the white house. neil: that's a very good point. [laughter] [laughter] >> i do think that everybody talks about after the election -- they say, oh, we are the ones that should be credited for winning for president obama and governor romney. but i think there is the black vote, the white vote, the hispanic vote, the women spoke from a small business vote -- but i think there are two demographics you need to keep your eye on. on the right, it is the...
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i don't think that president obama just learned about this yesterday. so i think -- >> jennifer: that's what he said in his statement, apparently. he said i went over to the white house yesterday and told them -- >> he may have gone over there and gave them the resignation, but if there has been an investigation into this there splay been knowledge before the election, but we don't know for sure. >> jennifer: we don't. all of the foreign policy and defense positions, huge turnover in these critical posts, some of the names being floated as permanent replacement are john brenen undersecretary of defense, the director for national intelligence. for the cia, is it important to get this one picked and in place quickly? >> yeah, absolutely. you want to move on from this. the cia will function a very capable organization but you need someone at the-ment leading the direction. he had to be traveling and doing all of these things. i think john brenen would be a good choice. he has been doing a lot of quiet diplomacy abroad especially in the middle east but righ
i don't think that president obama just learned about this yesterday. so i think -- >> jennifer: that's what he said in his statement, apparently. he said i went over to the white house yesterday and told them -- >> he may have gone over there and gave them the resignation, but if there has been an investigation into this there splay been knowledge before the election, but we don't know for sure. >> jennifer: we don't. all of the foreign policy and defense positions, huge...
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. >> peter mara, you have covered the campaign and candidates but also inside the obama white house, and many tea party activists indicate that the seeds of this began in the bush administration, but it really went full force in the spring and summer of 2009 as the president saw spending increase now approaching a $16 trillion debt. from your standpoint how has this evolved? >> well, for example, i have to say, steve, this white house rarely mentions the two parties "tea party." even when there are direct questions about it. i searched the white house website, whitehouse.gov. you find very few mentions. the president in his speech that he game in kansas, which became the template for the state of the union message, of course, did mention it. again, as he has a couple of times, folded it into a mention with the "occupy" movement saying that the situation with the economy has driven people on the right and on the left to form these groups. so you find very few mentions of the tea party by the president. the administration, the obama campaign, more than happy to let the republic candida
. >> peter mara, you have covered the campaign and candidates but also inside the obama white house, and many tea party activists indicate that the seeds of this began in the bush administration, but it really went full force in the spring and summer of 2009 as the president saw spending increase now approaching a $16 trillion debt. from your standpoint how has this evolved? >> well, for example, i have to say, steve, this white house rarely mentions the two parties "tea...
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all reasons that official white house trip has campaigned over tones. for president trying to recapture his magical two to one advantage with young voters over john mccain. hard to repeat, especially since fox news polling shows since 2008, his favorability among voters under 30 dropped 5%. ununfavorrability increased by 9%. >> if you really capture the imagination of a lot of people who never have been energized by politics. now the incumbent had to make decisions not necessarily popular and is responsible for the direction of the country. >> white house aide note he backs ryan's budget. that's one reason that obama says unnamed republicans are paying lib service to the interview. >> bret: sticking with a story of student lons this next story may make you want to scream. it involves how your tax dollars are used to pay off other people's debt. and you probably never knew about it until now. hire is correspondent luzaida. >> for years it's been cutting thousands of checks to help pay off the student loan of many government employees. perplexing to congr
all reasons that official white house trip has campaigned over tones. for president trying to recapture his magical two to one advantage with young voters over john mccain. hard to repeat, especially since fox news polling shows since 2008, his favorability among voters under 30 dropped 5%. ununfavorrability increased by 9%. >> if you really capture the imagination of a lot of people who never have been energized by politics. now the incumbent had to make decisions not necessarily popular...
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it was co-authored by a member of the obama white house, someone who was part of the white house economic team. >> the report's a joke? because the co-author worked for president obama? what romney's adviser forgot to mention is that the other author of the report, the other author was a staff economist for george h.w. bush. the romney campaign is also now arguing that the tax policy center is just some liberal group. even though last year the romney camp called their work quote, objective, third-party analysis. folks, romney's claims literally don't add up. the report said romney's tax plan was quote, mathematically impossible. the romney campaign is doing anything, saying anything because it doesn't want to face the facts. joining me now is retired u.s. army captain wes moore. he is author of the book "the other wes moore." and patricia murphy, editor of citizen jane politics and a contributor for "newsweek" and "the daily beast." thanks for joining me. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> patricia, let me start with you. the romney campaign's response has been to go after the tax policy center.
it was co-authored by a member of the obama white house, someone who was part of the white house economic team. >> the report's a joke? because the co-author worked for president obama? what romney's adviser forgot to mention is that the other author of the report, the other author was a staff economist for george h.w. bush. the romney campaign is also now arguing that the tax policy center is just some liberal group. even though last year the romney camp called their work quote,...
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obama says they would blame republicans so probably the white house is thinking about that. but if we have a deal by mid january, mid february, i don't see why that is going out of the question at all. they agree with most of what is on paper here. >> one quick thing. >> okay, sure. >> i don't think dividends will go up to 40%. i think there has to be some compromise. >> art, you get the last word. >> let me say, that people already moved a lot of income forward. there's income shifting as well as lower growth and that income shifting is going to drop gdp by a percent and half to 2% in the first half of 2013. that's baked into the cake already. >> over a hundred large companies have already brought forward their special dividend payments to avoid that tax hike. anyway, i got a job. jared bernstein, art laffer, have a happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving, everybody. >> you too, guys. >> well, here is a very interesting idea, carving out small business owners from the deadly fiscal cliff tax hikes. here now to tell us more is maine senator susan collins. as always, whenev
obama says they would blame republicans so probably the white house is thinking about that. but if we have a deal by mid january, mid february, i don't see why that is going out of the question at all. they agree with most of what is on paper here. >> one quick thing. >> okay, sure. >> i don't think dividends will go up to 40%. i think there has to be some compromise. >> art, you get the last word. >> let me say, that people already moved a lot of income forward....